. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r ought to add immediately that, like the rest of ourliterature, that produced during and shortly after the CivilWar seems to have been excellently adapted to the needs of thedemocratic public for which it was primarily written. It hasdemocratic soundness of substance in thought and feeling, evenif it rarely possesses aristocratic distinction of style. We doright to collect it and to emphasize the great part it has playedin our history, as well as the great part it can play now, par-ticularly in this semi-centennial year,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . r ought to add immediately that, like the rest of ourliterature, that produced during and shortly after the CivilWar seems to have been excellently adapted to the needs of thedemocratic public for which it was primarily written. It hasdemocratic soundness of substance in thought and feeling, evenif it rarely possesses aristocratic distinction of style. We doright to collect it and to emphasize the great part it has playedin our history, as well as the great part it can play now, par-ticularly in this semi-centennial year, in stimulating our senseof civic brotherhood. We do right, also, to acknowledge itsesthetic limitations, but we ought, at the same time, to point tothe fact that the American is perhaps of all men the most de-termined to put up with nothing less than the best. As helearns to demand more of his writers, they will learn to answermore and more satisfactorily his legitimate demands. New York, May 23, 1911. W. P. TRENT. [14] INTRODUCTION THE SPIRIT OFNATIONALITY. THE END OF THE WAR CANNON USELESS SAVE TO BE MELTED FOR PLOWSHARES INTRODUCTIONTHE SPIRIT OF NATIONALITY WHAT is in some ways the most remarkable and signifi-cant feature of the American Civil War is generallyoverlooked. Many another struggle has been rendered gloriousby daring charges upon the ramparts of the foe; other armiesand captains have inscribed upon their banners victories as bril-liant as Chancellorsville or Chattanooga; other nations havepoured out treasures of gold and blood in maintaining someright held sacred. But it has remained for the American peopleto present the spectacle of a fierce fratricidal conflict, prolongedto the point of exhaustion, swiftly followed by an even firmerknitting of the ties of brotherhood than had prevailed beforethe joining of battle. In a word, the Civil War, though stub-bornly waged, was in many respects the most generous civilconflict of modern times. Even in the midst of the s
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